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You can answer this yourself. Get rid of your phone and see. If you beleive it's not a necessity, don't say "yeah I could do these alternative things to get by". Actually do it. I hope you're not job-shopping
Yes, the impact on quality of life is just so significant that it's a handicap to normal daily lives.
The above being a rhetorical question, I just wanted to take a temperature of the room.
I have lived without a phone pretty much all my adult life. The experiment for me would be to get a phone and see what changes. In that way, I have answered it for myself and the answer is a clear "you don't need a phone".
Good for you. Other people do.